(Save the dates: RealShare Apartments East comes to the Hyatt Regency in Miami, FL, on February 26, and RealShare Los Angeles comes to the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, CA, on March 27.)
LOS ANGELES-Demonstrating the volatility of the Los Angeles multifamily market, Vanguard Investments has listed for sale a portfolio of 14 apartment communities in the Hollywod/Koreatown area here. The portfolio contains 294 units and is valued at $44.5 million.
Among the communities contained in the portfolio are:
- Villa Edgemont, 45 units at 1570 N. Edgemont St. in Los Feliz
- Fedora Woods, 39 units at 861 Fedora St. in Wilshire Center
- Occidental Apartments, 34 units at 320 S. Occidental Blvd. in Westlake
- Normandie Apartments, 37 units at 101 N. Normandie Ave. in Wilshire Center
- Curson Apartments, 20 units at 1439 N. Curson Ave. in West Hollywood
- Manhattan Place, 19 units at 722 S. Manhattan Place in Wilshire Center
- Elden Apartments, 18 units at 1102 Elden Ave. in Koreatown
- Berendo Apartments, 16 units at 1217 N. Berendo St. in East Hollywood
- Berendo Apartments, 14 units at 1234 N. Berendo St. in East Hollywood
- Bronson Apartments, 16 units at 1317 N. Bronson Ave. in Hollywood
- Lexington Apartments, 13 units at 5322 Lexington Ave. in East Hollywood
- Carondelet Apartments, 10 units at 227 S. Carondelet St. in Westlake
- Barton Apartments, 8 units at 6040 Barton Ave. in Hollywood
- S. Normandie Apartments, 5 units at 1121 S. Normandie Ave. in Koreatown
According to Arthur Arejian, president of Vanguard Investments, the portfolio offers a “unique blend of properties, all very well maintained and performing extremely well with respect to the history of occupancy and collections portfolio-wide at around 98% to 99% occupancy and collections.”
With regard to management, most of the properties and many of the units have been renovated, Arejian says, and the landlord is an “efficient operator” who offers a “high-quality unit, customer service second to none and an excellent resident experience.”
Arejian adds that the Hollywood/Los Feliz/Koreatown submarkets are known to be one of the tightest rental submarkets in the county with respect to rental growth, occupancy and overall collections. “All economic indicators lead to a robust future for this portfolio, with rent growth and the inherent in-place cash flow that it offers to an investor.” There are existing assumable loans on two of the properties.
As GlobeSt.com previously reported, in May 2011 Arejian represented a private seller in a 1031 Exchange to a private investor from the San Francisco area for the 41-unit Hawthorne Apartments at 435 Hawthorne St. in Glendale for $9.5 million at a 5.2% cap rate. The property, which was 100% occupied and was built in 1986, had enjoyed a history of high occupancy.
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Carrie Rossenfeld
Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.
